Inventory Number: | S 2437 | |
Section Number: | Ω 1926 | |
Title: | Portrait Bust of Female Figure | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Complete except for chips. Mended from three pieces. Portrait of a woman, head turned to right. Long wavy hair combed up and back away from face, bound in a large coil at back. Lightly incised eyebrows, drilled pupils, fleshy face, fat neck. She wears plain undergarment with heavier cloak over it. Hollow behind. Rectangular tenon for fastening into base. White crystalline marble. | |
Conservation Status: | Finished | |
Context: | Well. | |
Handling: | The object is on permanent exhibition on an open balcony and is therefore exposed to the city pollution. At this moment moving it inside or covering it are not options. The object is on permanent exhibition in the upper colonade of the Stoa of Attalos and therefore is not handled. | |
Notebook Page: | 2956 | |
Negatives: | Leica, 86-770, 86-771, 86-772, 86-773, 88-713, color slide | |
Dimensions: | H. 0.50; W. 0.425 | |
Material: | Marble | |
Chronology: | Last quarter of 2nd c. A.D. | |
Date: | 22 July 1971 | |
Section: | Ω | |
Grid: | Q 21 | |
Elevation: | Ca. -12.50m. | |
Masl: | -12.5m. | |
Deposit: | Q 21:4 | |
Lot: | Lot Ω 529 | |
Bibliography: | Museum Guide (2014), pp. 95, 97-98. | |
Camp (1986), p. 208. | ||
Guide (1976), p. 297, fig. 155. | ||
Hesperia 42 (1973), pp. 171-172, n. 119, pl. 38 a. | ||
Agora XXIV, p. 41, pl. 38 a. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XXIV Publication: Hesperia 42 (1973) Publication: Museum Guide (2014) Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 19, p. xvi Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 65, p. 41 Publication Page: Agora 24, s. 219 Report: 1971 Ω Report Page: 1971 Ω, s. 11 Images (16) Deposit: Q 21:4 Lot: Ω 529 Notebook: Ω-15 Notebook: Ω-16 Notebook Page: Ω-15-82 (pp. 2955-2956) Notebook Page: Ω-15-83 (pp. 2957-2958) Notebook Page: Ω-16-69 (pp. 3128-3129) Card: S 2437 |